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 (DIR) Post #366345 by jk@mastodon.social
       2018-10-04T18:13:53Z
       
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       whats the best C library for parsing/lexing C code, e.g. for something akin to syntax highlighting
       
 (DIR) Post #366349 by WAHa_06x36@mastodon.social
       2018-10-04T18:14:12Z
       
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       @jk Probably clang?
       
 (DIR) Post #366351 by bonzoesc@m.bonzoesc.net
       2018-10-04T18:14:16Z
       
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       @jk some llvm/clang components?
       
 (DIR) Post #366356 by BenLubar@mastodon.social
       2018-10-04T18:14:35Z
       
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       @jk if you want to pull in all of GCC, go for that.If you're just doing syntax highlighting, you can probably get away with a few regular expressions and not actually parsing it at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #366365 by jk@mastodon.social
       2018-10-04T18:15:40Z
       
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       @BenLubar i think i am looking for something between the two extremes. maybe ill spend hours lookin on github for someone's "i put a lot of regular expressions together into a thing and also there are tests" with the most stars
       
 (DIR) Post #366374 by BenLubar@mastodon.social
       2018-10-04T18:16:27Z
       
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       @jk if you can find a C formatter, that's probably going to have what you want in its code.
       
 (DIR) Post #366429 by Efi@mastodon.social
       2018-10-04T18:20:47Z
       
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       @jk gcc uses a hand-written lexer, so I'm not sure what the right answer is to this
       
 (DIR) Post #366606 by ddipaola@cybre.space
       2018-10-04T18:39:42Z
       
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       @jk tcc ;)
       
 (DIR) Post #368309 by fasterthanlime@mstdn.io
       2018-10-04T20:54:19Z
       
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       @jk maybe a subset of gtksourceview is worth looking at https://developer.gnome.org/gtksourceview/stable/alternatively, using a PEG grammar (I'm sure there's a few floating around), lighter but probably a lot more involved
       
 (DIR) Post #368483 by fasterthanlime@mstdn.io
       2018-10-04T20:56:34Z
       
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       @jk see https://github.com/pointlander/peg/blob/master/grammars/c/c.pegAndhttp://piumarta.com/software/peg/
       
 (DIR) Post #368484 by jk@mastodon.social
       2018-10-04T21:07:51Z
       
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       @fasterthanlime this is helpful, thanks!
       
 (DIR) Post #368693 by fasterthanlime@mstdn.io
       2018-10-04T21:20:11Z
       
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       @jk good luck!